I've been trying to execute an FC4 to FC5 upgrade via yum. The file system I'm trying to upgrade is used in a LTSP diskless boot system. It's very difficult to execute a fresh install from CDROM. The first thing I did was: rpm -Uvh fedora-release-5-5.noarch.rpm Next, I upgraded my yum.repos.d directory, and disabled all the odd ones, including atrpms. Next, I did yum update, which obviously didn't go clean since I'm here :-) I started with dozens of dependency issues. I was able to pick away at the issues by removing packages, upgrading small portions, etc. I was down to 1 final dependency issue. --> Processing Dependency: libneon.so.24 for package: librpm4.4 This was a difficult one as librpm4.4 was required by yum itself. If I remove librpm4.4 to resolve this dependency issue, then yum itself will get removed, then I'm hosed. I googled around and found this recommendation. # yum shell > remove librpm4.4 > update > run I tried this. All the dependencies were resolved and I was able to say "Y" to download 775 packages. The downloads occurred and the update ran. So far, so good. The file system/machine in question is on a headless computer. It's a media computer attached to my TV (the TV display is useless as a text monitor). I always attach to the unit via telnet. I rebooted the system, and it came up. However, when I attempt to telnet to the machine, I get an unexpected prompt: Fedora Core release 6 (Rawhide) Kernel 2.6.17.13-tftp on an i686 login: I know that telnet is running, since I get the login prompt. After I login, I immediately get kicked out with the "remote host has closed the connection". Can anyone explain why it appears I upgraded from FC4 to FC6? Did that really happen? Can anyone explain why telnet might have broken? I verified that I have telnet available in /etc/xinet.d. The fact that I get the login prompt proves telnet itself is okay, something happened after login. Thanks, Jim
